How We Do School @ SCSD - Code of Conduct Character and Support Lesson Starter 4
Restoring Relationships, Repairing Harm and Restitution
I Can Repair Any Harm I Have Caused
“I didn’t realize that what I did affected so many people.
I’m sorry and I want to make things better.” ~ Student
When a mistake has been made at least one relationship is likely to have been damaged. In addition harm may
have been done to one or more people or to objects or possessions. The SCSD is committed to holding students
accountable for their actions and supporting students as they learn to restore relationships and repair harm,
behaviors that will help them be successful at school and in the adult workplace. The person who made the mistake
is supported to decide that there is a positive outcome and to learn from the mistake.
Must Cover
Students will be supported to learn to
1. Identify the harm they have caused
2. Take responsibility for their actions
3. Restore the damaged relationship/s
4. Repair the harm caused by their actions
5. Make restitution for damage they have caused when applicable
Students will participate in restorative conferencing (p.30)
Introduce and explain how restorative questions will be used to address conflict in school this year.
Social Discipline Conference
a. What happened? (What was your part in what happened?)
b. What were you thinking and feeling at the time?
c. Who else was affected by this? How?
d. What have been your thoughts/feelings since then?
e. What are you thinking/feeling now?
f. What do you need to make things right?
g. What can others or I do to support you?
h. What might you do differently when this happens again?
Circles
Introduce the idea of community building circles, explain the procedures of circles and how your school will be
using circles this school year.
Code Connections
Restorative Conference Protocols (p.30)
Accountable and Restorative (p.4)
Select at least one resource from the attached Do, Think and Talk resource list, adapt or create a lesson and
document it’s completion on your Code of Conduct, Character and Support Lesson Participation form.
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Do, Think and Talk ~ Questions and Conversation Starting Activities
Pre K-2
Grade 3-5
6-8
9-10
11-12
Activity: Conversation Starter Questions and Quotes
“I didn’t realize that what I did affected so many people. I’m sorry and I want to make things better.” ~ Youth PreCharge Client
“There are different kinds of Justice. Retribution justice is largely Western. The African undertaking as far more
restorative – not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked over.” Desmond Tutu
Video: Classroom Circles/Daily Rap https://vimeo.com/32384751
Video: Conflict
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=Gl3e-OUnavQ
Lesson: Justice
Circle
http://www.cred
ucation.org/reso
urces/RJ_Lesso
n_3_Justice_Cir
cle_Part_1.pdf
Video: Replacing suspension with talking circles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8_94O4ExSA
Video: Introducing Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtdoWo1D3sY
Video: Community Building Circles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdKhcQrLD1w
Video: Welcome and Re-Entry Circle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSJ2GPiptvc
Literature: Essay –Personal Responsibility 102
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/02/19/how-to-own-up-tomistakes/
Internet Search and Share:
Q. What is restorative justice? Does it make sense for schools?
Q. What is the school to prison pipeline? How can it be
interrupted?
Q. What is restitution? How would you use restitution as a
response to a behavior mistake?
How We Do School @ SCSD - Code of Conduct Character and Support Lesson Starter 4
Pre K-2
Grade 3-5
6-8
9-10
11-12
Literature:
Just Mercy ~ Bryan Stevenson
p.218-219 “Hope”
Q. Do students need hope? Families?
Teachers?
p.288-290 “Brokenness”
Q. Are we all broken? Does punishing people
for their brokenness help them? Does it help
society?
P,306-308 “Helping others”
Does forgiveness make a difference? In the
person who did the harm? In the person who
is harmed?
Video: Restorative Justice in Schools Gaby’s
Story – developing empathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0iIwf3yBE
Classroom Teachers are required to keep evidence of having covered the 5 attached lesson starters with each
student. Record the date, material covered and attendance of all lessons to meet the legal requirements of the
AOD.
Resource
http://www.creducation.org/catalog/index.php?P=Home Resource Portal for the Conflict Resolution Education
Connection
http://www.tolerance.org/toolkit/toolkit-restoring-justice
http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/developing-empathy-high-school
http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/where-we-stand
http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/breaking-down-walls-intolerance-lunch-day-mixer
http://www.tolerance.org/speaking-kindness
http://www.centerforrestorativeprocess.com/lesson-3.htmlhttp://www.tolerance.org/lesson/elementary-mappingactivity
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